Opinion: McMinimum Wages

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... thousands of fast food workers in your went on strike this week ... to put the spring fifteen dollar minimum wage they said they just can't survive on its seven and a quarter in our ... my Wall Street Journal editorial page colleagues saw Rob Omar is here so of ... the sister the tastic economics ... is raising the minimum wage would put ... a lot of these people at work ... yet Canary in a historically ... that when you raise the minimum wage the car meets with twenty are artificially inflate the men and minimum wage ... The correlates with ... higher unemployment ... aam ... and particularly in this particular industry ... you have the risk of employers going to already embracing total automation ... going for that ... it be in that direction in the sense that you are really going to ... in all sorts of stores where ... you use and I've had to do the ordering so ... did the sense that workers are just the superfluous additional cost as far as employers a consent ... will only be inflated see if that of the tunnels of protesters set protesting to ... get more McDonald's workers fired ... on what is this to the price of fame ... it's can it has been suppressed food in communities that already are suffering ... you already have ... unemployment that they did so he spoke about in the previous segment ... you also have higher prices for for food and other basic foodstuffs okay so the economic scene is clear I want to move to kind ... of called troll a question and what does it say about our culture and society today ... that you have workers protesting ... for more pay than that for the same Nona for Beasts expect to be paid more ... than fifteen dollars ... minimum weights for fast food workers it boggles the mind ... amazing when you have is essentially a progressive is and that is ... really tracking a ... sad feeling a sense of ... triumph after present Obama victory in two thousand of the chair ... and the bank and EU now you no longer talking about incremental change or liberalism you're talking about ... extortion is the ages ... of up to fifteen dollars which you know if if the market prices fast food work ... at ... that whatever it is ... a huge push that up to fifteen it shows you that that the confidence that the end of the progressive and labor movements feel right now ... that it's the key labor unions have always agitated for higher wages ... we live in a democratic state New York in fact let let's put up on the chart in your you know what they intend to raise the minimum wage job putting people I work up to nine bucks in twenty sixteen ... aam ... but this is ... a different kind of entitlement society on what what says to a worker and McDonald's ... it's fine to go on the Street not just ask about nine bucks but to ramp it up to fifteen with messages that their get what's is coming from write ... a mean it's it's the entitles them to town and society ... without limits in other words ... work is no longer about ... hard work ... about ... making sure that you can put food on your family's table ... by doing artwork it's by making sure that ... you regardless of what you do ... you're you're awarded yet and high wages far beyond what the market what common sense ... would require look I know worth it for generations um but is this possibly a generational issue ... as well I mean I come from Kenexa ... you were told ... not bustle of work just go to work into the job in and then you can with the rusty life outside of the office and ... is that is the changing midnight and I didn't know when you read millennials ... you don't have to call her yet the protests to make the government if it didn't pose a higher wage for you ... okay well you know they may not like the consequences of what ... they're asking for ... a loss to